You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

You Should Be So Lucky

A Novel

Cat Sebastian, Joel Leslie, Avon

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 7, 2024

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.

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Who it’s for
A warm, mid-century queer romance pairs sports-page tension with grief, longing, and hard-won closeness.
Genres
Gay Romance, 20th-Century Historical Romance, Sports Romance
Published
HarperCollins, May 7, 2024

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An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good. The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life.

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He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree. Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers. Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.

Slow-Burn Sparks

A warm, mid-century queer romance pairs sports-page tension with grief, longing, and hard-won closeness.

Come here for

  • A slow-burn romance with baseball-season friction
  • Grief, found family, and the pull of a guarded attraction

Expect

  • A grumpy-sunshine dynamic that takes its time
  • Two lonely people weighing love against the cost of secrecy

Where it sits

Gay Romance71%
20th-Century Historical Romance48%
Sports Romance46%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Gay Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Gay Romance
  • 20th-Century Historical Romance
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  • Sports Romance
  • American Historical Romance
  • Sports Fiction
  • Family Life
Authors
Cat Sebastian, Joel Leslie, Avon
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 7, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Gay Fiction